Can Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease Do Kidney Transplant

Provided by Expert Yang Hongtao on : 2014-03-27 18:31

Polycystic Kidney Disease is a type of genetic disease caused by autosomal disease. Many various cysts will appear on both kidneys and become bigger and bigger even rupture in body,which may cause damage to kidneys. The worst thing is that it is inherited and may damage whole family. ONLINE DOCTOR may offer you more details quickly for free.

Actually,manyPKD patients are doubtful that if they can do Kidney Transplant to delay the disease process and prolong their life?

The answer is yes. Patients with Polycystic Kidney Disease can do Kidney Transplant as other Kidney Disease patients. Generally speaking,the barely functional kidney will not be cut. Or if the damaged kidney are too large to impact the new one,it may be cut. But what you should note here is that you would better make sure that your own damaged kidney can not work any more.

Although PKD patients can do Kidney Transplant to maintain their life,it is not the best way for most of patients. Until now,the survival rate of 1 years is more than 90%. Among these,half survival time of LDRT (Living Donor Renal Transplantation) is17.9 years; the cadaveric renal transplantation is just 10.9 years. If you do a second kidney transplant, the survival rate will be much less.

So for many Kidney Disease patients,it is not proposed to do Kidney Transplant to prolong their life. So if you are diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney Disease and the disease condition is not optimistic,please do not choose the Kidney Transplant that may be the worst choice for you.

If you are looking for other therapies to control and relieve your disease condition,we are pleasured to recommend a type of conservative therapy to you. It is called Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy that has less side-affects to improve your kidney function.

If you are interested in Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy or want get more professional guidance,just leave message on below or Email to kidney-healthy@hotmail.com with your specific disease condition and we will provide what you want freely.

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